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Top 100 Writers in France

The most publicly visible writers in France.

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The most famous writers in France right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Charles de Gaulle	France	Writers	92.1	2.1
#2	—	Molière	France	Writers	90.6	0.0
#3	—	Albert Camus	France	Writers	88.4	0.0
#4	—	Jules Verne	France	Writers	87.6	0.1
#5	—	Jean-Paul Sartre	France	Writers	87.0	0.0
#6	—	Marcel Proust	France	Writers	85.2	0.4
#7	—	Octave Mirbeau	France	Writers	83.3	15.0
#8	—	Charles Baudelaire	France	Writers	82.5	0.0
#9	—	Alexandre Dumas	France	Writers	82.4	0.0
#10	—	Honoré de Balzac	France	Writers	81.8	0.0
#11	—	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	France	Writers	81.2	0.0
#12	—	Émile Zola	France	Writers	80.5	0.0
#13	—	Arthur Rimbaud	France	Writers	78.8	3.5
#14	—	Anatole France	France	Writers	78.7	0.0
#15	—	Gustave Flaubert	France	Writers	78.4	0.0
#16	—	Éric Zemmour	France	Writers	78.2	2.6
#17	—	François Rabelais	France	Writers	77.8	7.4
#18	—	Guy de Maupassant	France	Writers	77.7	0.0
#19	—	George Sand	France	Writers	77.6	3.5
#20	—	Jean de La Fontaine	France	Writers	76.6	0.9
#21	—	Alain Delon	France	Writers	75.3	0.0
#22	—	Charles Aznavour	France	Writers	74.8	0.0
#23	—	Romain Rolland	France	Writers	74.5	0.0
#24	—	Sully Prudhomme	France	Writers	74.4	10.9
#25	—	Brigitte Fontaine	France	Writers	74.4	10.0
#26	—	Stendhal	France	Writers	73.8	0.0
#27	—	Pierre de Coubertin	France	Writers	73.4	11.1
#28	—	Georges Brassens	France	Writers	73.3	1.3
#29	—	Marquis de Sade	France	Writers	72.4	18.5
#30	—	Agnès Jaoui	France	Writers	72.1	10.0
#31	—	Salome Zourabichvili	France	Writers	71.8	1.2
#32	—	Alexandre Dumas fils	France	Writers	71.6	15.0
#33	—	Pierre Corneille	France	Writers	71.2	7.8
#34	—	Paul Verlaine	France	Writers	71.0	1.5
#35	—	Ivan Bunin	France	Writers	70.8	0.0
#36	—	François Mauriac	France	Writers	70.8	1.9
#37	—	Jean Racine	France	Writers	70.7	1.3
#38	—	Frédéric Mistral	France	Writers	70.4	0.0
#39	—	Jacques Attali	France	Writers	69.7	1.3
#40	—	Patrick Modiano	France	Writers	69.5	10.0
#41	—	Milan Kundera	France	Writers	69.3	0.0
#42	—	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	France	Writers	68.8	16.2
#43	—	Annie Ernaux	France	Writers	68.5	21.4
#44	—	Roger Martin du Gard	France	Writers	68.4	15.1
#45	—	François Villon	France	Writers	68.3	9.5
#46	—	Charles Perrault	France	Writers	67.4	0.0
#47	—	Guillaume Apollinaire	France	Writers	67.4	0.0
#48	—	Marguerite Yourcenar	France	Writers	67.3	8.9
#49	—	Anaïs Nin	France	Writers	67.3	10.0
#50	—	Alphonse Daudet	France	Writers	67.2	0.3
#51	—	Thérèse of Lisieux	France	Writers	66.9	15.3
#52	—	Stéphane Mallarmé	France	Writers	66.0	25.0
#53	—	Jean-François Champollion	France	Writers	65.9	15.0
#54	—	J. M. G. Le Clézio	France	Writers	65.9	0.0
#55	—	Claude Simon	France	Writers	65.8	5.6
#56	—	Marc-Édouard Nabe	France	Writers	65.8	9.4
#57	—	Alfred de Musset	France	Writers	65.7	0.2
#58	—	Françoise Sagan	France	Writers	65.3	7.0
#59	—	Cardinal Mazarin	France	Writers	65.2	15.0
#60	—	François de La Rochefoucauld	France	Writers	65.0	0.4
#61	—	Colette	France	Writers	64.9	2.1
#62	—	Théophile Gautier	France	Writers	64.3	1.7
#63	—	Paul Éluard	France	Writers	64.1	7.5
#64	—	Frantz Fanon	France	Writers	64.0	0.6
#65	—	Henri Barbusse	France	Writers	63.8	1.9
#66	—	Pope Urban IV	France	Writers	63.5	34.6
#67	—	Germaine de Staël	France	Writers	63.4	0.0
#68	—	Marguerite Duras	France	Writers	63.4	3.2
#69	—	André Breton	France	Writers	63.3	0.0
#70	—	Saint-John Perse	France	Writers	63.2	0.3
#71	—	Vincent Cespedes	France	Writers	63.2	3.3
#72	—	Olympe de Gouges	France	Writers	63.1	3.1
#73	—	Alexander Alekhine	France	Writers	62.8	0.2
#74	—	Pope John XXII	France	Writers	62.8	3.8
#75	—	BL Bernard Lugan	France	Writers	62.6	0.0
#76	—	Jean Anouilh	France	Writers	62.6	6.9
#77	—	Philip II of France	France	Writers	62.4	1.4
#78	—	Pope Clement VI	France	Writers	62.4	11.4
#79	—	Michel Houellebecq	France	Writers	62.3	0.6
#80	—	Jacques Lacan	France	Writers	62.0	0.0
#81	—	Gérard de Nerval	France	Writers	62.0	15.4
#82	—	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	France	Writers	61.6	1.3
#83	—	Abdellatif Kechiche	France	Writers	61.4	10.0
#84	—	Marie Leszczyńska	France	Writers	61.0	15.3
#85	—	Christine de Pizan	France	Writers	61.0	0.0
#86	—	Amanda Sthers	France	Writers	60.9	10.0
#87	—	Emmanuel Carrère	France	Writers	60.8	3.8
#88	—	Catherine of Valois	France	Writers	60.7	19.7
#89	—	Michel Blanc	France	Writers	60.6	22.8
#90	—	Jacques Prévert	France	Writers	60.5	0.0
#91	—	Gérard Lanvin	France	Writers	60.5	22.9
#92	—	Marcel Lefebvre	France	Writers	60.4	6.9
#93	—	Jean de La Bruyère	France	Writers	60.3	1.6
#94	—	René Guénon	France	Writers	60.2	10.0
#95	—	Nicolas Flamel	France	Writers	60.2	12.9
#96	—	Gabriel Matzneff	France	Writers	60.2	2.9
#97	—	MC Marie Cachet	France	Writers	60.1	0.0
#98	—	Pierre de Ronsard	France	Writers	60.1	0.7
#99	—	Paul Claudel	France	Writers	60.0	1.8
#100	—	Jules Renard	France	Writers	59.7	2.0

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